2022 ASCE UESI Surveying Competition Rules
ASCE UESI Surveying Competition2022 Rules and Regulations2022 Rules CommitteeCarol Morman, EdD, PE, PS, M.ASCEAllan Ng, PS, M.ASCEChristopher Chiu, EIT, SM.ASCEJames Decker, PS, M.UESI
2022 Rules and Regulations2ASCE UESI Surveying Competition Rules and Regulations Table of ContentsASCE UESI Surveying Competition Rules and Regulations Table of Contents . 2Overview . 3Participation and Teams . 3Eligibility to Advance . 4Awards and Recognition . 4Request for Information (RFI) . 4Ethics. 5Required Conduct . 5COVID-19 Safety . 5Penalties . 5Competition Tasks . 7Overview . 7Scoring Breakdown . 7Materials . 7Judging . 8Task Descriptions. 9Task - 1 Topographic Mapping. 9Task 2 - Pacing. 9Task 3 - Leveling . 10Task 4 - Building Stakeout . 10Task 5 - Determining depth of proposed sewer line and the cut at each station. 10Judging Form . 11Task 1A - Topographic Mapping Project Grading Rubric . 11Task 1B - Topographic Mapping Presentation Rubric . 12Task 2 – Pacing Grading Rubric . 13Task 3 – Leveling Grading Rubric. 14Task 4 – Building Stakeout Grading Rubric . 15Task 5 – Cut & Fill of Sewer Grading Rubric . 17Task Resource Estimate . 18
2022 Rules and Regulations3OverviewThe following set of rules and regulations will be used for the 2022 ASCE Student Symposiaand the 2022 ASCE UESI Surveying Society-wide Finals Competition.The educational and professional goals of this competition include a recognition of theimportance of basic surveying principles to all civil engineering projects. Students will berequired to use standard field and office equipment and procedures to solve common problemsencountered in industry. A clear understanding of and ability to apply basic surveyingprinciples will assist the graduate civil engineer in communicating and working with thesurveying professionals on the job site and during the design process.The UESI Surveying and Geomatics Division is pleased to announce that the 2022 ASCEUESI Surveying Society-wide Finals Competition will be held in conjunction with the ASCEConcrete Canoe and ASCE Sustainable Solutions Society-wide finals competitions atLouisiana Tech University. This will provide students the opportunity to display their surveyingskills to other students and practitioners in the field and further highlight the importance ofsurveying in civil engineering.Participation and TeamsParticipation in the surveying competition is limited to one (1) team per college/university. Eachteam may consist of a single team of up to six (6) total members for Tasks 1B, and 2 through 5.The team shall consist of undergraduate students enrolled during all or part of the currentcompetition academic year. Team members must be members of an ASCE Student Chapter ingood standing and be Society Student Members of ASCE. (Society student membership is free;be sure to join.)In keeping with the values of ASCE, each surveying team that registers 2, 4, or 6 members shallbe comprised of 50% of the participants that identify with the pronouns she/her/hers and 50% ofthe participants that identify with pronouns he/him/his. Each surveying team that registers3 members shall include at least one participant that identifies with the pronounsshe/her/hers and one participant that identifies with pronouns he/him/his. Each surveying teamthat registers 5 members shall include at least 2 participants that identify with the pronounsshe/her/hers and 2 participants that identify with the pronouns he/him/his. When a team includesparticipants that identify as they/them/their or participants that do not distinctly identifywith she/her/hers or he/him/his, the difference in the number of participants that identify withpronouns she/her/hers and he/him/his should aim to achieve a difference that is NOT greaterthan one.ASCE Student Chapters hosting symposia may invite Official Guest teams, which are teamsfrom colleges or universities that have an official ASCE Student Chapter that is not assigned toany Student Conference. Official Guest teams are eligible (if they meet requirements, includingeligibility standards to advance to Society-wide finals) to be invited to the Society-widecompetition. Official Guest teams may compete in only one student symposia per year. ASCE
2022 Rules and Regulations4Student Services shall be notified by the ASCE Student Symposium host school of an OfficialGuest team prior to the start of the student symposium. Notification can be by e-mail tostudent@asce.org. Conference assignments and student symposium host chapters are listedat onferences.Eligibility to AdvanceThere are two levels of competition: the ASCE Student Symposium level and a Society-wideFinals level. Winning teams from the student symposia may be invited to the Society-wideFinals Competition. Eligibility to advance to the 2022 ASCE UESI Surveying Society-wideFinals Competition includes those eligibility standards set by ASCE. These standards can befound at onferences/eligibility.At the end of the student symposium competition, the student symposium host shall promptlysubmit the completed official scoring spreadsheet for the competition to student@asce.org.Teams will not be invited to the ASCE UESI Surveying Society-wide Finals event until thisspreadsheet is received and eligibility is confirmed.Awards and RecognitionThe top surveying team at each 2022 ASCE Student Symposium will receive a plaque and,upon meeting ASCE eligibility rules, will be invited to participate in the 2022 ASCE UESISurveying Society-wide Finals Competition June 3-5, 2022 in Ruston, Louisiana.A select number of wildcard teams that also meet ASCE eligibility rules may also be invited.The top three (3) teams at the 2022 ASCE UESI Surveying Society-wide Finals Competitionwill receive a plaque and monetary award to be given to their ASCE student chapter. AllSurveying Society-wide Finals Competition participants will receive a certificate of participationand each team will receive a participation memento.Request for Information (RFI)Requests for information (RFIs) regarding the 2022 surveying competitions should be sentto student@asce.org with the subject line “2022 Surveying Competition RFI”. Clarificationswill be posted at the ASCE UESI Surveying Competition Collaborate Site every Friday startingSeptember 24, 2021 until February 11, 2022. Each post will address the questions receivedfrom the previous week through the Wednesday before 11:59 p.m. Eastern time. The cutoffdate for submitting a RFI is Wednesday, February 9, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Those receivedafter this date will not be acknowledged or addressed. Teams are strongly encouraged tosubmit RFIs to avoid misinterpretation of the rules and project tasks. All RFIs will bemade public. All teams are responsible for all information provided in the Rules andRegulations and RFI responses posted to the Collaborate site.
2022 Rules and Regulations5EthicsThis competition is to be conducted with the highest regard for ethical responsibility perASCE’s Code of Ethics. All members of ASCE, regardless of their membership grade or jobdescription, commit to all of the ethical responsibilities in this Code. All ASCE members shouldmake themselves familiar with ASCE’s Code of Ethics.Required ConductAll participants shall act professionally and respectfully at all times. Failure to act appropriatelycan result in sanctions, disqualification, and loss of invitations to future symposia or ASCEUESI Surveying Society-wide Finals competitions. The inappropriate use of language, alcohol,materials and equipment, uncooperativeness, or general unprofessional or unethical behaviorwill not be tolerated.COVID-19 SafetyAll participants are responsible for complying with all campus protocols and proceduresincluding but not limited to COVID-19 guidelines related to in-person meetings, masking, socialdistancing, etc., at all times in connection with planning, preparation, or participation in thecompetition.Given the continually changing environment surrounding COVID-19, virtual competitionprovisions are provided in the rules and may be activated in coordination with ASCE.PenaltiesPenalties will be assessed for the following items. No other penalties shall be added to thiscompetition by the symposium hosts.Late submittalsTask 1A Projects are due at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST), Monday, February 28,2022. Projects submitted after this date and time are subject to a late penalty. Late penaltieswill be assessed as follows:Submitted on February 28, after 5:00 pm EST 10 point deductionSubmitted on March 1 by 11:59 p.m. EST 20 point deductionSubmitted on March 2 by 11:59 p.m. EST 30 point deductionSubmitted on March 3 by 11:59 p.m. EST 40 point deductionSubmitted on or after March 4, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. 0 point for submittal, teams maystill participate and get points for the presentations and field tasks.Any Task 1A project submitted after 11:59 p.m. EST, March 4, 2022, will not be accepted andthat team will receive 0 points for all aspects of Task 1A. Task 1B will occur at the symposiumand society-wide finals competitions.Team members completing more than three (3) tasks10 point deduction for each team member that completes four (4) tasks
2022 Rules and Regulations620 point deduction for each team member that completes five (5) tasksPresentation lengthFailure to observe time limit: A 15 point penalty shall be assessed when the official timeexceeds 5 minutes 5 seconds (5:05). An additional 15 point deduction shall be assessed forexceeding each additional minute or fraction thereof, i.e., 6:00, 7:00, etc.Failure to have at least 2 presenters: 15 point deductionMissing or incorrect file type submittalsFiles submitted in a format other than a PDF and an XML will not be judged.Missing XML files 20 point deduction.Exceeding field task time limitsNo time extensions will be granted for the completion for any field task. This includes tasks 2,3, 4, and 5.
2022 Rules and Regulations7Competition TasksOverviewThe surveying field competition will involve five (5) separate tasks, each comprising a maximumof three or four (3 or 4) team members to demonstrate the ability to apply the techniques of landsurveying. Members for each task will be randomly chosen on the day of the competition. Eachmember of the team may only perform a maximum of three (3) tasks. In the event that thiscompetition becomes a virtual event, only Tasks 1A and 1B will be required at the symposiums.Task 1B will be a live virtual presentation. An additional task, beyond Tasks 1A and 1B, will beadded to a virtual Society-wide finals competition.The five (5) tasks will be as follows:Task 1: Topographic mapping project and presentationTask 2: PacingTask 3: Differential LevelingTask 4: Building StakeoutTask 5: Determining the depth of a proposed sewer line and the cut at each stationTeams may use the attached Task Resource Estimate chart to determine how their teammembers might complete each task. At competition, the judges will randomly select teammembers for each task using the attached Task Resource Estimate chart.The times to complete competition site tasks (Tasks 2 through 5) will be recorded by a judgeand will be used as a tie breaker.Scoring BreakdownFor each task, teams will be evaluated according to the parameters provided within thedescription of each task. The team with the highest number of points from the sum of all five (5)tasks will be the overall winner. In the event that multiple teams receive the same overall score,the shortest overall time for Task 2 through Task 5 will be the tie breaker. See the attachedScoring Rubrics for detailed scoring breakdowns.MaterialsThe tasks are project-oriented problems; therefore, for Task 1A (Topographic mapping project),the use of any civil design software is recommended for individual team practice and at eachsymposium. ASCE UESI can recommend free educational civil design software and onlinetraining videos upon request. Teams are responsible for all necessary software and safetyequipment for symposium competitions, if needed. For Task 2 through Task 5, the field methodsmay vary amongst teams. The use of traditional surveying equipment (transits/theodolites/totalstations, tapes, prisms, prism poles, conventional optical levels, level rods) is recommended forindividual team practice and at each symposium competition. Proper safety equipment isrequired. Examples of appropriate safety equipment include eye protection for the staking crew,
2022 Rules and Regulations8safety vests, and protective head and foot-wear. Digital levels*, robotic total stations*, GPS –RTK receivers are NOT permitted. *Digital levels and Robotic total stations will be permitted
to student@asce.org with the subject line “2022 Surveying Competition RFI”. Clarifications will be posted at the ASCE UESI Surveying Competition Collaborate Site every Friday starting September 24, 2021 until Februar
ASCE's Code of Ethics. All members of ASCE, regardless of their membership grade or job description, commit to all of the ethical responsibilities in this Code. All ASCE members should make themselves familiar with ASCE's Code of Ethics. Section 6: Required Conduct All participants shall act professionally and respectfully at all times.
This document, also available on the ASCE Student Conferences page of the ASCE Website, defines the 2022 ASCE Innovation Contest and the rules for both the student symposium and Society-wide finals competition levels. Requests for Information (RFI) should be sent to student@asce.org with the subject line "ASCE Innovation Contest RFI."
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